PIRELLI BEAT THE CLOCK

PIRELLI BEAT THE CLOCK

On Friday the records starting falling for Pirelli, with Foret beating Vermeulen's 2003-season best Lap. Vermeulen was on Pirellis when he set his long-standing best, and was champion at the end of that season, in the "Open Era", fought out with prototype tyres. Today Bayliss also set the new best lap for the SBK class.
The track itself changed a lot during the Phillip Island weekend, due to the different weather and temperature experienced over the practice period. Temperature and humidity has altered the tarmac grip, so different tyres were needed in different sessions to allow full potential to be reached in each session.
Pirelli has fitments ready to meet any conditions, and tomorrow the last record remaining to be beaten is for race time over the full 22-lap distance.